 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 366 pages
...state. In performing this experiment, why U the tube on the negative side first filled with gas :' gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of...metal instead of being extricated and rising up the tube. When neutral salts, whether alkaline, metallic, or earthy, such as common salt, blue vitriol,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 368 pages
...state. In performing this experiment, why IB the tube on the negative side first filled with gas 1 gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of...metal instead of being extricated and rising up the tube. When neutral salts, whether alkaline, metallic, or earthy, such as common salt, blue vitriol,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1832 - 366 pages
...performing this experiment, why is the tube on the negative side flrat filled with gas 7 : combine in die proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen)...metal instead of being extricated and rising up the. tube. j When neutral salts, whether alkaline, metallic, or earthy, such as common salt, blue vitrol,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1834 - 360 pages
...come within the orifices of the tubes. The battery being now set in action, small bubbles of gas will be seen to arise from the ends of the wires, but in...gold, otherwise, if they are made of iron, or other oxidahle metal, the oxygen combines with the metal instead of being extricated and rising up the tube.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1840 - 550 pages
...known is composed of two elastic gases, viz., inflammable gas or hydrogen, and vital gas or oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, and water may be considered as the grand, if not the only vehicle by means of which plants receive... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1835 - 370 pages
...come within the orifices of the tubes. The battery being now set in action, small bubbles of gas will be seen to arise from the ends of the wires, but in...metal instead of being extricated and rising up the tube. When neutral salts, whether alkaline, metallic, or earthy, such as common salt, blue vitrol,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1840 - 444 pages
...negative side fir- 1 filled with gas 1 gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of hydrog-in lo one of oxygen. Of course, therefore, when water is...metal instead of being extricated and rising up the tube. When neutral salts, whether alkaline, metallic, or earthy, such as common salt, blue vitrol,... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1843 - 810 pages
...of the diminution of volume divided by 3 will give the required quantity ; as the two gases can only combine in the proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen. The converse of the process may obviously be applied to ascertain an unknown quantity of hydrogen.... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1845 - 442 pages
...separate state. In performing this experiment, why in tlw Hibe on the negative side flra filled with sas J gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of...decomposed, the volume of oxygen is only half that of hy drogen. ' In this experiment, the poles of the battery must be of platina, or gold, otherwise, if... | |
 | Sylvester Graham - Diet - 1849 - 302 pages
...entirely different form of matter which we call water. Suppose this room to be filled with those gases, in the proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, and that they are completely secluded from the action and influence of all other causes : here they... | |
| |
This circumstance arises from the fact, that in forming water, these two gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen. Of course, therefore, when water is decomposed, the volume of oxygen is only half that of hydrogen. )... 
